Hungry? Ming Wah will fill you up

Now, as we progress toward dinner, it’s time to adjust taste buds. And one of the tastes that has always appealed to me, mostly as an alternative to my mother’s boil-everything-to-death style of cooking, is American style Chinese food.

In recent years, food from Asia has taken a number of different forms. Japanese, Thai, Cambodian, Vietnamese, etc., even in Spokane. And the choices are far more diverse than what were available in the 1950s of my youth. Or over much of the next four decades, for that matter, when chop suey was considered … exotic?

And when it comes to Ming Wah , which is located near the intersection of Third Ave. and Maple St., I’m not going to waste time trying to make a case for its diverse menu. This is memory food, plentiful and relatively cheap, hot and fast to the table. And tasty, albeit in a traditional way that you aren’t likely to find Anthony Bourdain eating.

All of which is why it’s one of my favorite Spokane eateries. I ate there recently, sharing a special dinner-for-two with my brother, which included sweet-and-sour pork, fried shrimp, chicken and vegetable egg noodles, pork fried rice and egg-flower soup. All for less than $25. And it was delicious.

Even my mother would have dug in.